Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project

Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, HMML Project ID EMML, Manuscript No. 2037

This Geʿez language manuscript was created between 1850 and 1949. This date is estimated, based on paleography, a study of the manuscript's letter shapes, by Jeremy Brown and Stephen Delamarter.

This manuscript's last known location (i.e., where it was microfilmed or digitized at some point in the past forty years) is the repository of Church of Asofe Madhane 'Alam in Basso and Warana, Shoa Province, Ethiopia.

To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.

This manuscript has a typical number of Marian miracle stories: 41.

This manuscript has no paintings of Marian miracle stories.

This manuscript has a total of 78 folios and 89 scans. It has 2 columns per page and approximately 18–19 lines per column.

The stories in this manuscript were cataloged by Jeremy R. Brown.

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML (HMML) 2037.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML2037. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include EMML 2037.

Regarding this manuscript's repository:

The Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) was a microfilming project carried out in Ethiopia in the 1970s-1990s. The project photographed 9,238 manuscripts prior to its conclusion in 1994. The collection has over five hundred Täˀammərä Maryam manuscripts. This project revolutionized Ethiopian Studies through the thousands of manuscripts made available for research and the ten volumes of catalogs prepared by William F. Macomber and Getatchew Haile. There is no institution that holds a complete set of the EMML microfilms, although the majority of the microfilms are available at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML). HMML has the largest collection of electronic and microfilmed Ethiopian/Eritrean manuscripts in the world. There is an ongoing digitization effort at HMML to make the entirety of the EMML collection available online in their Reading Room. View more information about collections at HMML, including EMML.

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EMML (HMML) 2037

Order in MS	Story Title	Location in MS	Story Recension	Incipit	Other Aspects	Story ID
1	Bishop Hildephonsus of Toledo who collected stories and compiled them into the Book of the Miracles of the Virgin Mary	f. 6r-8r, col. 2	-	-	-	13
2	A man who drowned when a pilgrim ship sank and was delivered unharmed to their destination	f. 8r-9r, col. 1	-	-	-	149
3	A knight who tried to seduce his friend's wife but repented when dead people appeared as she read aloud from the Prayer for the Dead	f. 9r-12r, col. 2	-	-	-	193
4	The pious rich man whom Satan served in hopes of destroying him and who tried to trick him through fishing, hunting, and fasting	f. 12r-13r, col. 1	-	-	-	194
5	The peasant who became rich by seizing his neighbors' land and crops and is rescued from going to hell by the Virgin Mary	f. 13r-14r, col. 2	-	-	-	195
6	The hypocritical superior of a monastery who pretended to be religious and is rescued from hell by the Virgin Mary	f. 14r-15r, col. 1	-	-	-	196
7	The Jew of Constantinople who threw an icon of the Virgin Mary into a pit toilet and was taken to hell by a demon	f. 15r-16r, col. 1	-	-	-	197
8	A woman from the city of Rome who killed the baby she bore after sleeping with her son	f. 16r-18v, col. 2	-	-	-	198
9	A monk who got himself appointed by the king to be abbot when the abbot died, angering the monks, and then he himself died	f. 18v-19v, col. 1	-	-	-	199
10	A young man, who put the ring he had received from his girlfriend on the finger of a Virgin Mary statue, and was rebuked on his wedding night by Mary for deserting her	f. 20r-21v, col. 1	-	-	-	200
11	A ship in a storm was about to founder when it was saved by the passengers praying to the Virgin Mary	f. 22r-23r, col. 1	EMML (HMML) 3872	-	-	201
12	The poor man from Aragon, Spain, who was buried alive in a gold mine for twelve days and saved when the Virgin Mary brought his wife's offerings of bread, wine, and a candle	f. 23r-26v, col. 1	-	-	-	30
13	A wealthy knight who squandered his wealth and denied Christ at the bidding of Satan, in order to have fine clothes for a reception, but refused to deny the Virgin Mary	f. 26v-28r, col. 2	-	-	-	203
14	Two brothers from Rome who loved money, the deacon Peter and the corrupt official Stephen, were both saved from hell when Stephen restored everything he had stolen	f. 28r-29v, col. 2	-	-	-	173
15	A rich sinner, who had repented and planned to build a monastery, died before he could accomplish this pious goal yet was still saved from hell by the Virgin Mary	f. 29v-31v, col. 2	-	-	-	174
16	A deacon prayed the prayer that contained the word 'rejoice' five times for the five joys of the Virgin Mary	f. 31v-32v, col. 1	-	-	-	142
17	The nominal Christian from Sidon who encountered a serpent/dragon/snake in the desert of Scete (same as 1231?)	f. 32v-34v, col. 1	-	-	-	134
18	A divorced wife who prayed for revenge against her husband's new wife but was refused because the new wife was devoted to the Virgin Mary	f. 34v-36v, col. 2	-	-	-	150
19	A bee keeper who consulted a sorceress to have his bees produce more honey and wax	f. 36v-37v, col. 1	-	-	-	160
20	A pregnant abbess is secretly delivered of her son by the Virgin Mary and he grows up to become a bishop	f. 37v-40r, col. 2	-	-	-	158

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